Some time ago I published a stupid entry about the TV show Monk. I looked at the show again and I was wrong. The show is well written and acted. I am going to make a habit of it in the future.
Saturday July 26th is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the FBI. I enforces hundreds of Federal laws. It has offices all over the United States and foreign countries. If you watch the Cato Forum yesterday (July 23) it has broken the law in a host of cases. It led to the death of a pregnant women at Ruby Ridge and killed a host of people in the siege of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco. As a American and lover of freedom I don't think I'll be celebrating.
I wanted to re-emphasizes my liking of Bill Kline's lectures at this years Summer Seminar. He was worth the price of admission. We didn't miss Tibor at all.
Robert Bradley spoke at the 50th Atlas event. He spoke twice at the Summer Seminar. His topics were Energy: The Master Resource and Ayn Rand, Enron and the Reconstruction of 'Business Ethics'.In Energy I learned that fossil fuels are indispensable. In the Enron talk the refusal of a host of people to look at Enron bottom line should make anyone suspicious of these institutes. I am thinking of Fortune magazine. Bradley was also asked to leave Ken Lay's funeral. Also be very suspicious of bu
Susan McCloskey is the wife of David Kelley. She taught English Lit. at Princeton before starting a firm that teachs businessmen how to write. Her lecture were about Ellsworth Tooney, James Taggart and Lillian Reardan. On Tooney she made the point that Tooney is a character who you enjoy when he is on the scene. He is interesting in a way that Taggart is not. Ms McCloskey made the point that from Taggart's first appearance he repels the reader. Tooney is fun to watch.
Phil Coats asked me to name a high point of the Summer Seminar. Bill Kline as he was last year. His three talks on Environmental Ethics were the best at the conference. Bill has a mind that skewers collectivist jargon. I hope TAS keeps bringing him back.
On Monday, July 7, 2008 I had the unique honor of attending Ringo's birthday happening at the Hard Rock hotel in Chicago. I wiggled myself in next to the CNN camera and got some great pictures. I have posted them up on www.myspace.com/katdaddy9 Looking forward to seeing Ringo and the band again on Sunday! Peace & Love Kat
The Objectivist History Project is a brain child of Duncan Scott. Duncan Scott is trying to interview people who knew Ayn Rand while they are still with us. Many are already gone and all are in advanced ages. Duncan Scott has interviewed the Brandens, Robert Hessen, John Hospers and others. His latest interview was with Al Ramrus who was the producer of The Mike Wallace Interview wit h Ayn Rand. Mr. Ramrus is in his 70ths but his mind is clear. It was a fun interview.
This will be a short post.This was an excellent Summer Seminar. In less than a year TAS has had two great events. Let's hope Open Objectivism can do something.
Tonight July 8th Warren Beatty will receive his AFI Life Achievement Award. I sure he deserves it but all I could think of was a comment by Nathaniel Branden. Dr. Branden said he had been to an early Warren Beatty film titled All Fall Down. Branden said Beatty played one of the most out of focus persons he had ever seen. Branden said he wanted to write a philosophical article title Warren Beatty Son of Immanuel Kant.
I signed up for one and I am thinking of another. The one I am signed is Law & Order: A Critical Look at the police and prosecutors. I am also thinking of one on my over forty years in the Objectivist and Libertarian movement.
I hope to be able to do postings during the Summer Seminar on a daily basis. I will be leaving Sat. June 28 and coming back July 5. I will do a longer report after I get back.
She was one of the best dancers Hollywood had. She danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She is wonderful in the Broadway Melody number in Singing in the Rain. She was married to the same man for 60 years. She had wonderful life
Today is Flag Day in the US. We have something called the Flag Code which say how we are to behave with the US flag including when it becomes worn out. I don't know if any other country honors their flag this way.Tomorrow(June 15th) is Father's Day. Being a father is hard work so if you good ones wish them well. They have earned it.
This is the anniversary of two famous murders. One was the killing by Byron DeLay Beckworth of NAACP leader Medgar Evers. The other was the killing by persons unknown( O J Simpson) of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson. Beckwith died in prison. Simpson may yet depending on how things turn out in the trial in the fall.
Yesterday Jerry Mathers turned sixty. Jerry Mathers was the Beaver on Leave It to Beaver. Leave It to Beaver ran several season in late 50ths and early 60ths. It was finally canceled because of the advancing ages of the two stars. The most memorable character was Eddie Haskell who was one of Wally's buddys. Eddie was Uriah Heep as a teenager. He was always sucking up to the adults while bullying the little kids on the show. There were rumors that he became a famous porn star although he
The news yesterday really marked the end of an era. It is the end of Kennedy era. Beginning in 1946 with the election of John Kennedy to Congress the Kennedys have been and made the news. For six Presidential elections Kennedy have been or talked about as candidates for that office. Teddy has made himself the principle spokesman for the "progressive" cause in the United States. I want to emphasize that I don't think he has been a cause for good but lets wait on the appraisals I have menti
I purchased a new HD TV last week and got it today. I had a very annoying buzz on my old TV. The new TV is great with a really great picture. It takes a lot less room too.
I received an e-mail from Dave Mayer telling about his summer blog entries. Dave is law professor and lecturer at TOC-TAS events. I have yet to look at his new blog entries but the range of entries is mind boggling. Everything from the HBO John Adams series to coming political campaign. Check out Dave's blog.
